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POKTKY.
” Anther do lcondemn thee :go, Sc tin no more.”
Sweet a* that hour, when light descend*
t To Earth, on gulden wings from HearsD,
t* that first moment Woman bend*,
And trembling sues to be forgiven.
Oh, He that view’d her uplift eye,
That, tearful, pity did implore,
And mark'd each sad, repentant ligb,
In mercy bade her “ Sin no more !”
Then shall vain Mar the mourner spurn,
Leave her a prey to grief and care,
When in her heart each sigh shall turn
To true and rich repentance there ?
Ob ! let him think on Christ’s decree.
When she forgiveness shall implore,
Sor chide her in her misery,
Bu? bid her “ Go, and sin no more !”
The following beautiful lines are by Thomas
Pringle, the Editor of the first volume of Black
wood’s Magazine, as well as the three first vol
vni.es of Constable’s new series of the Scots
Magazine.
ADIEU TO OUR NATIVE LANf\
Our native land—our native vale,
A long and last adieu;
Farewell to honny Teviotdale,
And Cheviot mountains blue !
Farewell ye hills of glorious deeds,
And streams renown'd in song ;
Farewell ye blithesome braes and meads,
Our hearts have lov’d so long.
Farewell ye broomy elfin bowers.
Where thyme and harebells grow:
Farewell ye hoary haunted towers,
O’erhnng with birk and sloe.
The battle mound—the lofty tower
That Sjcotia’s annals tell;
The martyr’s grave—the lover’s bower,
To each—to all—farewell.
Home of our hearts ! our father’s borne—
Land of the brave and free!
The sail is flapping on the foam
That hears us far from thee!
We seek a wild and distant shore
Beyond the Atlautick main ;
We leave thee to return no more,
Nor view thy cliff* again !
But may dishonour blight our fame,
And quench our household fires,
When we, or ours, forget thy name,
Green Island of our sires.
Out native laud—our native vale,
A long—a last adieu ;
Farewell to bouuy Teviotdale,
And Scotland’s mountains blue!
DIVERSITY.
THE ‘RULING PASSION. ~
It ia affirmed tbai St. Anselm, archbishop
ofCantetburv, findiug himaelf near death,
at the age ot seventy-six years, wished for
a little delay, that he might finish a very
obscure question, which he bad begun, on
the origin ot the soul. It he had obtained
yet seventy-six years of life more, says
Eariholinu*, I doubt whether he could have
made au eud ut such an obscure question.
The Roman emperor Adrian composed,
in his last moments, the celebrated address
to tus soul, which Mr. Pope has so sublime,
ly- imitated, beginning, ‘Vital spark of
heavenly flame.,’ &c
Mademoiselle bdberon, of Parts, bad all
her life time, a passion for auotomy, says
Grimm. She attended the dissections of
dead bodies for a long lime ; and, at length,
got possessed of such knowledge, that she
moulded all the parts of the human body
in ibc greatest perfection. Sir John Prin
gle, who saw them, -aid that siencb only
was wanir.d to make them actual. But
what a propensity for a lady !
tUker, in bis Chronicle, speaks of Henry
Beaufort, cardinal of Winchester, who was
ex'rnrpely ricu, crying out, upon his death
bed, ni such speeches as the*p:“F ije—
will not death be hired ? Wnl money do
nothing? Musi i die, that have such great
riches? If the whole realm of England
would save my life, 1 am able, either, by
policy to get it, or by riches to buy it •”
Butterfly Hunting. —ln a letter from Mr.
Ravvtiti*, June 11, 1735, in the Bodleian
Collection, he states, that one Mr. Vernon
followed a butterfly nine mile* before he
Could catch him!
Cnrran’s ruling passion was his joke. In
his la*t illness, his physician observing in
(he morning, that he seemed tc cough with
more difficulty, he answered, * That is rath
er surprising, a* I have been practising all
night ”
Jerome Cardan was an astrologer, and,
arr.ong other things, foretold the time of
his own death. Jerome, however, being
very we If at the time his prediction should
ha’ e been fulfilled, and loved his reputa
tion belter than his own life, starved him
self, that he might verify his prediction.
Bayle says,“Cardan was afraid of surviv
ing the falsehood of hi* progno-iicks, and so ■
tender of his hoonur, that he could not en
dure the reproach of having proved a false
prophet, and wronging his profession.
Few people, in the like case, stand up with
eo much courage and affection for the hon
our of their art.”—Thus did Cardan verify
hi a ruling passion, giving the tnosl extra
ordinary instance of astrological supersti
tion and vanity.
Alonzo Cano, a Spanish artist, may be
literally said to have felt the ruling passion
strong in death : for, when the priest, who
ani nd-d him,'presented the crucifix, he
turned his eyes away, and refused, to look
at it, because the -culplure was so badly
executed ! but asked for a plain cross, which
Being brought to him, he devoutly embrao
ed It anfll eipirefl.—(/aeon’s Travels vb
Spain.)
There have been instances, within our
own personal recollection, of two gentle
men, who taking into their heads to com
mit suicide, (a cowardly act,} by cutting
their throat*, have yet so cautiously placed
themselves, as not lo dirt any part of the
room with tbeir blood. Such was their
still remaining love of cleanliness.
Voltaire tells us that Camoens was ship
wrecked on the coast of Malabar, or Me
con. (in Cochin China, according to Mickle,]
but swam ashore, bolding up his poem
which he bad mostly written at sea, io one
hand, which otherwise had'been, perhaps,
lost forever.
The study of grammar was the great
passion of the Abbe Dangeau: one day
somebody was talking to him of the appre
hensions enertained that some great revo
lution was about to take place in publick
affair* ; “ That may be,” said the abbe, “ but
whatever happens. 1 am extremely rejoiced
that I have in my portfolio at least thirty six
conjugations perfectly completed.”
THE SAILOR MONKEY.
From “ Anecdotes of Memkeys,’’ lately published.
This monkey went to sea accompanied
by a bear, with a relation of mine, w ho was
captain of a small sloop of war, and who
prnfewed to take them with a view to keep
ing his men in good humour. I believe it
was io minister to his own amusement.—
Probably both objects were attained.
The monkey principally eitracted hie
fun from the bear. This beast, who was
of a saturnine complexion, indulged him
self in sleeping on the sunny s tde of the
deck. On these occasions the monkey
would overhaul his paws, and twitch out
any hair which he found matted by tar or
pitch, the suffering of which to remain
-epmpd to be a great scandal in bis opinion.
A* other limes he would open Bruin’?
eye-lids, and peep into his eves, as it to as
certain what be wa dreaming about. The
hear, irritated at such liberties being taken
with his person, nsed to make clumsy at
tempts to reveoge himself, hut his persecu
tor ws* ofFin an instant. The rigging wa*
on these occasions his place of refuge.—
Timber he was indeed followed by his en
emy, but poor Bruin was an indifferent top
man. and seldom got beyond lubber's hole.
The monkey, on the contrary, was fa
mons for hi* activity, and for some time was
entitled by the sailors “ Deputy-captain of
•he fore top.” He obtained this designa
tion from a very singular practice. Hav
iog observed the ex r ilemet produced on
deck by the announcement ofa sail a head, j
which, a.- well as the chase which followed, !
seemed to be highly agreeable to him, the !
t. re-top b->cnm*- his favourite station, from
whence he made his signals with great en
ergy, chattering with a peculiar scream
hen any vessel was in sight, and indica
ling by sign* in what direction it appeared.
Png continued to volunteer hi? services
for some time in this manner, and constant
ly found his re ward. But, at length, upon
the sloop’s getting on bad cruizing ground,
he found his employment doll, and by way
of enlivening it, amused himself by giving
false alarms.
He was started for this by the boatswain’s
mate, and lost his rank as Depoty-captaiD
of tbe fore top. In lieu of wbich, more
over, he was new named Monk the Marine,
a denomination which be certainly knew to
he opprobrious, as he resented it with gri
mace*, chatter, and whenever be dared,
with blows.
Though he was fond of the excitement
of the chase, he wa not sopposed to have
good nerves, and those who -had seen him
n> action (he was after the first experiment
always gent below) made but an ill report
of bis steadiness under fire.
This poor monkey came to a melancholy
end. H“ had observed a sick lieutenant,
who breakfasted after the re*t of the mess,
making tea. and being accidentally left
alone in the gun room, detetmined to imi
tate him. He, however, succeeded ill in
hi* mixture, for be infosed a paper of to
bacco which was lying on the table, into the
pot, instead of tea, and af'erwards swallow
ed it, with it* accompaniments of milk and
sugar. This ill imagined beverage prurit)
red the most fearful commotion in his in
*ide, attended with long arid loathsome
vomitings, of which he finally died.
The doctor, who was a materialist and
an athiest, and a most quarrelsome fellow,
(he had killed two brother officers in duels,
ODe for calfing him Dr. Gallipot) attended
him with more care than we had expect
ed, but the poor beast, as the purser said,
was outward bound and could uot be recall
ed.
The surgeon pronouoced that Pug died
of the illiac passion , and announced this
as a reason for believing that a man was
but a better breed of monkey.
Another monkey, kept nn board a frigate,
was distinguished, like ihe rest of hi“ tribe,
by a propensity to gratuitous mischief.—
He was well aware of there being a large
store of apples in a locker ia the ward
room, but his thievish tricks were so well
knowD, that he was excluded from all le
gitimate access to it Under these circum
stances, he provided himself with a piece
of wadding, and with ibis implement in ooe
hand, and swinging himself from the stern
gallery with the other, be broke a pane in
the ward room window, and having care
folly picked out the broken glass.introduced
himself into the forbidden territory. Here
like the animal in the fable, he gorged him
selfso fully that be was unable to retreat.
Being token in the fact, be received the
discipline of the rope’s end, but derived
little benefit from his chastisement.
The captain, who had also uff"red from
his depredations, conceived the idea of a
more effectual punishment, bet tbit not only
led to oo refbrtt, hot was the coos* of a
new and most ludritou* offence.
He was in the habit, it seems, of stealing
preserved apricots, into which a quantity
of manna was infused by the captaio’a order.
The beast swallowed the bait, and was con
siderably inconvenienced by the effects of
bis medicine, but found out a mode of rem
edy and revenge. He took possession of
one of the quarter galleries, having ob.
served to what purposes they were appro,
priated, kept hi? seat within for some
hours, and was only dislodged by breaking
down the bulk head.
All these pranks, however provoking at
the moment, seemed only to make him a
greater favourite with the crew. The cap’
tain himself, who studied Pug’s happiness
a* much as others, and who perhaps thought
he might be somewhat steadied by matri.
atony, was anxious to provide him with
a wife. a
This was accordingly done, and for some,
time the happiness of the wedded pair
appeared to be complete ; and the frigate
sailed upon a summer cruize during tbeir
honeymoon. The husband, however, soon
grew indifferent, aod indifference was -soon
succeeded by disgust. This was manifested
by angry looks, chatter and even blows,
upon the female persevering in her atten*
tion*. All were much disappointed and
scandalized at the dvil success of such an
union.
At length, however, an apparent change
took place in the husband s conduct, and
was hailed with correspondent joy by the
ship’s company. Their pleasure tvas.hovv,
ever, of hort duration, for the traitor hav
ing one fine day decoyed his wife out to the
end of the fore top gallant yard, as if to
show her somethiog at sea, and sat dowD
with heron (he spar, slipt his paw under
her silting part and tumbled her overboard.
“ LIGHT READING.”
Editors of papers, equally with farmers, have
their dry season*, in which they find it difficult to
collect or manufacture a sufficiency of News to
keep their readers in good buoiour ; and it is du
ring these barren periods that many of tbe frater
nity are in the habit of filling their columns with
certain articles which they denominate “ Light
REAmwa.” This term is generally supposed to
mean a kind of matter that affords amusement
without imparting either instruction or informa
tion—vast quantities of which may be hastily dis
posed of with little exercise of the mental pow
ers, as we swallow creams and jellies without the
labour of mastication. On this account, such
kind of intellectual food is peculiarly well adapted
to sundry fashionable readers, whose minds have
become too enfeebled by long indulgence in the
delicacie* of modem literature, to digest more
substantial fare.
The following dissertation on tbe xutltnnes* of
hands, we suppose must be classed with these
“ li *: h t readings,” although tbe writer has recom
mended a scheme which he believes calculate
to “ meliorate the condition of the human race.”
It is sufficiently novel to attract attention, and we
do not know why he has not as much right to b.
heard as bis benevolent coadjutor, Mr. Owen.—
Unlike the Scotch reformer, he does not plainly
tell us that all maiikiud, himself excepted, have
been blockheads, wholly ignorant of their own
capacity for enjoying happiness—and by adopting
his plan we are in no danger of having our minds
poisoned by infidelity, or muddled by crude no
tions about the perfection of human nature.
From the U. States’ Literary Gaxette.
NO HANDS.
Unhand me, gentlemen Hamlet.
An ingenious essay lately appeared in the New
Monthly Magaxine, proving to the world the de
cided advantages of “ having no head.” And 1
did entertain sanguine expectations, that some
one more able than myself would have employed
hie pen earlier in setting forth tbe manifold advan
tages of “having no hands.” Disappointed in
this respect, I take upon myself the arduous task;
conceiving it to be my hounden duty to convince
mankind how unfortunate is the situation of eve
ry one possessing two, live, naked hands!—al
though 1 cannot but regret my inability to handle
this feeling subject in a manner more worthy of
its merits.
The principal design of those uncouth appen
dages to the human figure, is, to perform all the
duties and offices, which we are apt to suppose
cannot be done, at least in so handy a manner,
by the toee, the ankles, tbe elbows, or any of the
other members, with which man is provided. But,
however paradoxical it may appear—and Lowev
er opposed to the vulgar adage, which says, “ ma
ny hands make light work”—l venture to affirm
that no bands make wo k still lighter. For if
sne is so happy as to be without those awkward
and ungainly limbs, is it not a fair inference that
bt will have none of their peculiar duties to per
form * Thoß, at once, a world of trouble is shaken
off his hands. He may then enjoy dignity and
ease without the pains—to use a sailor's phrase—
o'“lending a hand” to obtain them. Never will
h* undertake any ignominious handicraft—be
seen toiling at a handcart—labouring at a hand
saw—or confined between tbe degrading poles of
a handbanrow.
In military affairs be will never know the use of
the manual, and war will have for him no danger.
Hard indeed must be the heart of tbe “ orderly,”
who coald command him to take up arms, or ban
die a musket. And then, in pecuniary matters,
what advantages will he not possess > No one will
ever think of borrowing from one who can never
have money on hand. His credit, too, would be
unbounded, for it would be barbarous to require
of him a note of hand ; unless he could sign it
with his feet, with which, indeed, a man may
sometimes make a pretty good running hand.
Another advantage, Mr. Editor, deserves par
ticular consideration. He never will be obliged,
as we double-handed wretches too often are, to i
shake hands with a disagreeable acquaintance; I
and can never injure bis reputation by being hand
aud glove witli an exceptionable character.
Those disgusting articles, called handkerchiefs,
will form no item in his wardrobe or his washing
bill. And then, how nanny seven-and-sixpences
will he not save in the single article of gloves!
They, and the want of them, will be equally un
known. And yet he will never complain of cold ;
bands or warm hands, of damp bands or dirty
hands. ’Tis true he can never attain the fair
fame of possessing “ a hand open as day to mel
ting charity.” But he will be equally free from
the opprobrious appellation of a close-fisted fel
low. What a guaranty for honesty ! he will nev
er lay his hands upon the property of another.
And of perjury he can never be guilty, till oaths
are very differently administered, He will live in 1
‘peso* with all hi* neighbours ; at least, noons
will ever receive an injury at his hands. He will
never be liable to reproach himself with having
- fingered a bribe, or with having held up his hand
{ to vote against the people and his country.
On the other huud, it cannot be denied that
there are some privations, to which this improved
’ specimen or the human animal will be subject.
1 They are so trifling, however, in comparison with
1 his advantages, that I cannot suppose any will
i hesitate to adopt the improvement. It is un
doubtedly true, and I mention these things to
show my candour, and do justice to the old-fash
ioned form of men, that there are many little
pleasure*—tending, perhaps, to make life agreea
; ble—which’ he would be entirely obliged to fore
go. At card-parties, for example, he could only
he a spectator, for no one would think of inviting
him to take a hand. He could never take ala
, dy’s hand—or hand her to her coach—or, what
is worse than all, Mr. Editor, offer her his hand.
Is he desirous of pursuing the study of medi
cine ? Alas! it would be a melancholy considera
tion, that he could never hope to have a single pa
tient under his hands. In the law, too, who would
plod through its rubbish of black-letter folios, un
less he were cheered by the anticipation of one
day being able to grasp the rich reward of some
grateful and feeling client? Asa divine, however
powerful and persuasive the appeals he might
pour forth, few at least of his fair auditors would
be convinced of the purity of his motives or the
soundness of his doctrines, unless his arguments
were enforced in a more handsome and strikiug
manner than they could he by this fingerless, ring
less being.
But, notwithstanding these minor considera
tions, I trust enough has been said to convince all
of the expediency of immediately relieving them
selves of these appendages. And though some
may be “up iu arms” at the suggestion, they
must be few who will not go hand-in-hand with
me, in my benevolent plan for meliorating the con
dition of the human race.
Trial of Mr. Sarcry. —Some weeks since, we
noticed the arrest ol Mr. Save/y, the son of a re
spectable Banker of the city of Bristol, on a
charge of forging a bill.of exchange. It will be
recollected, tnat this unfortunate gentleman had
euibaikcd on hoard of one of the packets for this
city, and was taken from the ship by the officers
of police. His trial took place at the April term,
held in Bristol. On being placed at the bar, he
plead Guilty This plea was wholly unexpected
by the c.-urt; and being delivered in a firm voice,
produced a great effect, particularly on the judge,
Lord Gifford, who changed colour, and remained
silent lor some tune. At length, looking earnest
ly in the prisoner’s face, he inquired if he had
been induced to make that plea by the hope of
pard o n. He replied that he hud done it delibe
rately. Tiis lordship told him to consider a short
time before be determined to persevere in that
plea. The prisoner shook his head, reclined on
his hand, and agaiu covered his face, agitated by
grief.
Clerk of lh‘ Arraign*. “ Shall 1 enter the ver
dict, my Lord?”
The Recorder. “ Wart a short time.”
The prisoner was then removed; and on being
brought back, and saying that he persisted in his
plea, the judge putting on his black cap, addres
sed him in a very solemn manner, and after urging
him not to indulge the hope of a pardou, proceed
ed to pronounce the sentence of death. The
prisoner seemed to lose all power of breathing,
and dropped down his head. Mr. Smith, one of
the prosecutors, who had before attempted to ad
dress the court, made way through the crowd, by
the witness box, and very agitatiugly exclaimed :
My Lord—As the prosecutor, I recommend
him to mercy, if mercy can be shown. The con
sequences of his crime were limited, the publick
having suffered nothing—hardly any thing.
Lord Giff.rd leant hack in his seat. greatly af
fected ; but made no reply. The prisoner was
,'hen removed from the dock, amidst the deathly
-lienee of a crowded court, many of the persons
(.resent well knowing the prisoner and his father.
The great combat between the liou, Nero, and
six mastiffs of the true English breed, for five thou
sand sovereign*, was decided in favour of the li
on, who made very short work of it.
[Land, paper.
Tbe Clergy of Rome consists of nineteen car
dinals, twenty-seven bishops, 1,450 priests, 1,532
monks, 1,464 nuns, and 332 seminarists. The
population of Rome, with the exception of the
Jews, consisted, in 1821, of 146,000 souls.
Lately, in Durham County, England, a young
eirl was sitting knitting, when a companion ap
proached her, and striking her on the back, occa
sioned her to bend forward, by which sudden
movement, one of Ler needles ran up her nose,
and wounding a mortal part,she instantly expired !
A few days ago, the son of the Editor of the New
England Gaxette, fell the point of a stick
which he held in his mouth, and punctured an ar
tery of the throat. The blood flowed so rapidly
that he died in twenty minutes!
“ Dangers stand thick o'er all the ground ,
“ TV push us to Ihe tomb ”
The following toast was given by Gen. Lafay
ette, at the Masonick festival in New Orleans:
“ The Brethren who worked together on the
line* on the Bth of January, and the Master work
man who directed them.”
TV keep off or drive away Bed-bugs. —Make a
strong decoction of red pepper, when ripe, and
apply it with a common paint brush to the joints
of the bedstead, wainscotting, Ac. where these
odious insects usually resert, and it will speedily
kill or expel them.
Oliver Millard, a popular and energetick prea
cher of the reign of Louis XI. attacked the vices
of the court in his sermons, and did not spare
even the king himself, who, taking offence at it,
sent the priest word that if he did not change his
tone, be would have him thrown into the Seine
“ The king, (replied Oliver) is the master to do
what he pleases: but tell him that I shall reach
Paradise by water sooner than he will with his
post horses.” (Tbe establishment of travelling
post was instituted by Louis XI.) This bold an
swer at once amused and intimidated the king,
for be let the priest continue to preach as he
pleased, and what he pleased.
Sore Backs.— Major Long, in hi* “Expedition
to the Source of St. Peter’* River,” lately publish
ed, says—“ Our horses were sometimes chafed by
the saddle. After having tried many applica
tions, we found none that succeeded so well a*
white lead moistened with milk. After we had
left the settlements sweet oil was used as a sub
stitute for milk. Whenever the application was
made in the early stage of the wound, we have
found it to be very efficacious. Two ounces of
white lead sufficed for the whole of our party du
ring more than a month.”
The following is related in Bradford’s His
tory of Massachusetts. “On the occasion of the
1 brilliant affair at Bennington, a present wasorder
’ ed by the Legislature of Massachusetts to General
: Stark, of a suit of clolhet and apiece of linen.”
Such was the simplicity if not poverty of the
times.
“ A good hit."— An anecdote with this title,
has been published in most or all the newspapers
in which a New Yorker it made to threaten a
Penns? Iranian, that if the kiegiilatnre of bis state j
interfered with the New York Coat Cotnpahy ,
the 41 York folks’*’would cut a canal from Car-,
penter’s point to the Hudson, drain off the Dela
ware, and leave the city of Philadelphia high and
dry. This anecdote appears also in the West
chester Pa. Village Record, accompanied with
the following retort:
The N. York papers are all circulating this
41 good hit,” as they term it, with a remarkable
self complacent spirit, thursting their tongues into
the left cheek, as much as to say, 44 Who but
we ?” In good truth, the Yorkers have been so
be praised for their great canal and their great
city, that they begin to look down upon their
neighbours as an inferiour race. Don’t swell too
large, gentlemen. If our commissioners on inter
nal improvements do their duty, and we have no
doubt they will, we will tap your great caDa),and
bring the trade of your fine Geneasee country
down the Susquehannah, through the great valley,
to our own emporium, which though not pushed
in a hot bed, is thriving finely and handsomely,
and a century hence, as well as now, will equal
your grand city in every thing but—puffing.
Crows.—Take a handful of hair from the mane
or tail of a horse, thread them into a needle,draw
them through the eye or chit of the corn, leaving
in it the whole length of the hair—and after the
field i* planted, scatter a small quantity of this
corn thus prepared over the field. If a crow or
blackbird once gets a kernel thus prepared, they
will never want another. The hair keeps such a
continual irritation in the throat, that they will
soou destroy .themselves. — New Eng. Farmer ,
Bunker HiU Anniversary. —The procession and
ceremonies of the 17th of June will be of the
showy and impressive character. The Free Ma
aons, of whose body Gen. Warren was Grand
vlaster, will make a brilliant display, and it is
supposed that 1500 Knights Templars of that fra
ternity will attend in their appropriate robes,
which are very rich The members of the. Le
gislature will also attend, and the escort will be
composed of the numerous uniformed corps of the
city and vicinity. The oration will be delivered
in open air on account of the multitude who <r
expected to be present. From a position on the
lower part of the hill the speaker will address ih*
assembled citizens, who will be arranged in eeata
erected from the bottom to the top in the form of
a semi-circle, after the manner of the ancients.— i
Arrangements will be made for thousands of per-y
sons to partake of a dinner on this consecrated
spot. The Monument, the corner stone of whick
will be laid by Gen. Lafayette, is to be a column
of granite 250 feet high, to he ascended bv a cir
cular stair way to the top, fron, which a most
beautiful prospec t will be presented. The cost
is estimated at $70,000, which is principally de
frayed by the donations of citizens of the State.
TO THE FRIENDS OF HUMANITY.
SOME time during the Autumn of 1822. arrived
ill this village, a man who called his name
STROTHER. He appeared to be about forty
five year* of age, dark complected, with keen
black eyes, rather above the ordinary height of
men, and by his own report a citizen of Louisiana.
There were in company with him a young woman,
with an infant child, whom STROTHER said
was his daughter ; that she was a widow wornaa
by the name of Scott, and that they were travel
ling for her health. They came to this place in
very bad circumstances. The lady was in a seri
ous state of illness,and had no means of procuring
assistance, more than that which was kindly mid
gratuitously rendered. Her Father, (or reputed
Father) was a man of loose, idle, and dissipated
habits; appeared to be very little affected at the
situation of the woman under his protection, and
if we may be allowed to judge from his conduct
while here, we would take him to be of that clast
of men who have no home, nor country, nor
friends, and are generally characterized by the
name of gamblers.
The woman died in a few days alter her arrival
in this place, leaving her infant child in this dii*
tre*sful situation. The Masonick Lodge in this
place, took the case into consideration, and with
the kind assistance of the Ladies buried the un
fortunate stranger In a decent manner. They
then gave BTROTHER money to assist him on
his way, with a positive assurance frOui him that
he would return from Augusta, (where he said he
could procure money) and take the child to its
friends. The Lodge at the same time took the
child under their cpte and support in which situa
tion he now remains. The child, is in enre of
no one except those by whose charity he lives.
STROTHER has not been heard of since.
And from all circumstances we are induced to
believe that the persons above alluded to, did not
stand in the relative situation to each other as
they were represented. And probably this unfor
tunate woman was the victim of a vile and curs-.
ed seducer, whom she had followed even unto]
death, and (it may be) fleeit ‘rom respectable*
and doting parents, whose sorrow might yet he
appeased by a recovery of her nameless infant.
Editors who are disposed to favour the
cause of humanity, and to assist a poor, a pitiful,
and a pennyless Orphan in obtaining a knowledge
of his relations, will please to publish the above
gratis. W M. Lodge No. 48.
Unionville, S. C. April 27, 1825.
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